Vampire David Bowie. Or Catherine Deneuve.

Snow white and Rose Red was definitely a favorite. I also love the Hans Christian Andersen one about the dogs with 'eyes as big as dinner plates'. Something about soldiers coming home, subterranean chambers, and hideous beasts just hits me in all the right places.

If you haven't read her, you're in for a treat. She is fantastic.

Word. Commenting to get in on the librarian fist bump.

Carrying the bride ove the threshold was a Roman tradition meant to fool the household gods into thinking the bride had always been a member of the household (because if she'd never entered, she must have always been there, right?). That's why it's bad luck for the bride to hit her foot coming through the door. Those…

Sister, you and me both.

My parents did a similar floating candle thing (but with PVC pipe) for their Harry Potter-themed party last year. They liked the look so much, they were still up when I came home for Christmas.

I've been lurking since the beginning, but only comment from time to time. In the real world, I'm a librarian at a law firm. I live on a boat with my husband and a small dog. I'm re-learning how to play the piano, having quit lessons in a huff when I was 12. I like to draw.

I'm a different bona fide librarian, but to answer your question, most librarians have a masters in Library and Information Science (MLIS), and pretty much every librarian job today requires that degree. Some librarians have other advanced degrees in top of that: law librarians sometimes also have a JD, or academic…

I'm a big fan of what comments on the internet can be — an expansion of the ideas in an original post, a hilarious riff on a thought or idea, or sometimes even a whole bibliographic catalog of outside resources. As a compulsive reader who is going to read the greys no matter what, I'd love the chance to help make…

I also had never heard of Joyce before you wrote about him last week. So far, I've devoured The Limits of Enchantment, The Tooth Fairy, and The Silent Land (aka all the books I could get my hands on from the library). What a fantastic author, and what a terrible loss.

Wait... they have *adult* space camps? I'm gonna need a diaper over here.

Word. Nyssa was where it was *at* in my house. She (and Jo Grant) remain my fashion icons to this day.

Thank you. I've been waiting for that story since about 1981.

That was my thought too, but the article does address the issue:

I'm sorry people yell at you. You should know, though, that leg presses work your thighs, not your calves. I hope you don't think I'm trying to make you feel bad — I'm sure your calves are great. But I do think it's important to know what muscles you're working when you're at the gym.

I actually really loved the book. That's why it bothered me. I remembered loving the moment when the title came in to focus — so having that become a blank spot in my memory was kind of discomfiting.

I've read it twice, and I remember the basic plot points, but a few years after I'd read it the first time someone ask me the significance of the title, and I couldn't remember. So I read it again. And now I've forgotten again.

Word. I also have yet to shush anyone (not while I'm on the clock, anyway).

For whatever it's worth, I loved Adric when I was a kid. Of course, I was a bratty know-it-all with a shaggy hairdo and a tendency to tag along where I wasn't wanted, so I probably wasn't the best judge.